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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Finished: Sudoku Quilt

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. –Tryon Edwards

This quilt was so fun to make! A shout out to P. for the inspiration and to Sarah for sharing the pattern! I'm pretty sure there will be another one in my future.

To quilt this, I marked diagonally through each square and then quilted a series of arcs around the X's I'd marked. It was a lot of fun.

Mathematically, this quilt is awesome. The outer border is 8", exactly double the nine-patch squares, and it divides evenly by 8 as well, so I marked it in 8" squares, drew X's through them and quilted the same arcs as I did in the nine-patches. And with all that stripey goodness, I couldn't resist a bit of stripey bias binding.

I quilted my favorite swirls into the sashing. They are hard to see from the front because the thread is the same color as the sashing, so here's a view from the back.

Here's a shot of the whole quilt. So much fun and so quick to put together!

7 comments:

Awesome, Elizabeth! Beautiful quilting; it is very complementary. Love the stripey border and binding. That yellow vintage fabric just brings a little merry sunshine, doesn't it? Congrats on another 2011 finish!

Your cute little button reminds me that I meant to add it and keep track in 2011 myself, but that didn't happen. Perhaps I will be inspired to organize better next year. :)